Thursday, December 5, 2013

Ella Warden Gawne, 1850-1887

Ella Warden was born on February 12, 1850 to H.P. and Elizabeth Warden. In 1860 census, Ella was age 8, and resided with her parents and siblings in Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio. The family later moved to Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio. On June 28, 1877, Miss Ella Warden married Dr. Augustus J. Gawne in Erie County, Ohio.

Sadly, Ella Warden Gawne died on December 5, 1887, when she was just a young woman. Though Dr. A.J. Gawne married again, after his death in 1910, he was buried at Oakland Cemetery in Sandusky, Ohio, next to his first wife Ella. Dr. and Ella Gawne's flat stone is in the North Ridge section of Oakland Cemetery.